Salvaged
The next book in the smoking hot SAINTS OF DENVER series from NYT bestselling author of the MARKED MEN series, Jay CrownoverHudson Wheeler is tired of being the nice guy. He’s ready to start living in the moment but when he meets Poppy Cruz, her sad eyes hook him in right away. Wheeler can see Poppy’s pain and all he wants to do is take care of her and make her smile, whatever it takes.After a lifetime of being hurt, Poppy’s determined to keep herself safe by keeping everyone else at arm’s length. Wheeler’s sexy grin shouldn’t captivate her, but every time she’s with him, she can’t help being pulled closer. Though she’s terrified to trust again, Poppy soon realizes it might hurt even more to shut Wheeler out – and her intense feelings are making it near impossible to resist him.The only thing Poppy is sure of is that her heart is in need of some serious repair, and the more time she spends with Wheeler, the more she’s convinced he’s the only man with the tools to fix it.
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First published in Great Britain by HarperCollins 2017
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Source ISBN: 9780008116309
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This one is for the survivors. The fierce and the fighters, the ones who refused to break. This book is for anyone who needs to know it can and will get better ⦠Those who need some reassurance that there are good guys out there. Believe that there are hot, sweet, special nice guys who donât mind finishing last. *wink wink
I saved the best hearts for last
When I introduced Poppy in Rowdy and Salemâs book, I had no idea she was going to become the character who readers asked me about the most. Every day someone asked me if she was going to get a book, asked when her story was coming, but more than that, they really really wanted her to get a happy-ever-after. They demanded that she love and be loved better than any of my other characters. Sheâd been through hell and back, and without a doubt, my readers felt she deserved someone who would treat her right and be good to her.
I think that speaks to why we all love to read romance so much. Itâs the idea that the heart can heal from anything and that there really, truly is someone out there who can make all the bad things that may have happened to harden a heart disappear. That there is someone who can find us and guide us to a better place no matter how lost and alone we might feel. Readers didnât want her to be afraid anymore. They wanted her to be romanced and won over.
Make no mistake, I can give some good romance;) ⦠but itâs not the norm for me. I have never considered myself a romantic at heart. I love love, and I adore all the sexy, sweaty things that go with it. But hearts and flowers, wooing and soft persuasion ⦠yeah ⦠I ainât got no time for that. I like my romance a little ugly, a little dangerous, and a whole lot messy. So that made getting into the groove for this bookâthe one that was about hearts healing and real romanceâchallenging. It required soft and I am much more comfortable with hard.
Itâs not very often I sit down and put two people with pure hearts together. Itâs a rare case when Iâm writing two people who are genuinely kind and caring, who are simply looking for something better out of each other and out of themselves. I tend to drift toward making at least one of my main characters all kinds of twisted and torn, but that isnât the case here. Yes, they both have demons to slay and mountains to climb, but Poppy and Wheeler are simply good people who have had more than their fair share of bad thrown their way ⦠they are so much more than what they have experienced. More than any other characters I have ever written, when they stumble they get right back up and keep going. Iâm going to be honest, I had a rough end of 2016. Things with family, my dog, things changing professionally ⦠it made the task of writing about perseverance and unwavering optimism, writing about hope and courage, a bit of a challenge. But thatâs why I write, why I tell the stories I do. Itâs an escape, a way to live in a place that has all the things reality might be missing at the moment.
In order to do these two justice, it took some digging deep, some honest self-evaluation and self-examination, on my part to get to the soft center of myself that I usually keep hidden from the world. Really, I like to pretend it doesnât exist at all. I desperately wanted to get it rightâfor Poppy and Wheeler, but more for the readers who were rooting for the girl who had been ruined to be Salvaged and returned to her former glory. For the tenderhearted who wanted the nice guy to finally catch some kind of break.
